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- Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor14 Jan 2021Last week’s assault on the Capitol was essentially a race riot, the product of white racial grievance.
- Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor13 Jan 2021The Grayzone founder notes that “such a disproportionate percentage” of the Capitol building attackers were former military, former law enforcement, or current law enforcement that began rappelling
- Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist13 Jan 2021There needs to be soul searching and truth telling about invasions, interventions, coups and sanctions that are far more destructive than the Trump lovers could ever be.
- Editors, The Black Agenda Review13 Jan 2021Not just in the White Settler States, but throughout the Black world the very possibility of Black citizenship has been gutted.
- Ben Passmore13 Jan 2021The other side of duopoly.